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Agrigento fire, September 2026 Agrigento

Out · last measured on 14 Sept 2026

The fire started on 14 September 2026 in Agrigento, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 133 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 211th largest in Agrigento since 2016 (of 289 with a page). Number 168 in Italy in 2026, of 231.

We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but not yet its hotspots: NASA publishes the yearly hotspot archive only once the year closes. The page picks it up automatically when it is available.

Burnt area
133ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
14 Sept 2026 – 14 Sept 2026
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
14 Sept
2026
Danger at start
31
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

29°high
32km/h · peak gust
41%lowest humidity

It had gone more than two months without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.1 mm on 18 Sept.

This area had burned before

77% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 52 ha in 2022, 1 ha in 2023, 12 ha in 2024, 81 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 103 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Agrigento 55,512 inhabitants · 17.4 km from the town where it started
    134 ha
    0.6 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

  • Other natural land53 %
  • Agricultural areas47 %

Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
14 Sept 29.2 °C 41 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
15 Sept after 30.0 °C 39 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
16 Sept after 28.2 °C 45 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
17 Sept after 27.5 °C 57 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
18 Sept after 27.3 °C 66 % 29 km/h 2.1 mm Low 8

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 7 Sept 2026
After · 21 Sept 2026

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 12 September 2026 the air beside the fire reached 10 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak10 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1017 µg/m³
Optical depth0.34
121314151617
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Agrigento fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 14 September 2026 and 14 September 2026: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 133 hectares (1.3 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Agrigento (134 ha, 0.6 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 17.4 km of Agrigento. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 29.2 °C, humidity dropped to 41 % and gusts hit 32 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 31, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Italy (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Emergency number: 112 · 1515

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter and land cover come from the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), measured on MODIS and Sentinel-2 imagery and published under CC BY 4.0. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM4 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from each country’s official figure.